At the opposite end of the population scale from the remote Alaskan village now powered entirely by a hydrokinetic river turbine, Paris wants in on the hydropower without dams act. As The Guardian reports, the

A couple weeks back when writing about whether hydropower really should be considered a clean power source, there were a couple varieties that were left out. Thanks to the remote town of Eagle, Alaska we can highlight one of them.

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Osmotic Power has been kicking around for a while now, with researchers trying to make it cost-competitive--the biggest hurdle when you're trying to generate electricity by passing fresh water through a membrane into saltwater. Now, a

It's been nearly a year since we first heard about Kenya's largest wind farm in the planning, the 300 MW Lake Turkana Wind Farm, but a newish piece in the Washington Post highlighted by Climate Progress makes a

The environmental problems with large-scale hydropower are well documented, with small-scale hydro often seen as a more benign way to exploit the power of rivers for electricity. However, as the Wall Street Journal

A couple years ago TreeHugger highlighted the efforts of the island of El Hierro (one of the smaller of the Canary Islands, with a population of about 10,000) to make the switch over to generating all of its power from renewable energy

Here's one more way to harness the power of water to create energy: It's been dubbed Blue Energy by Ode Magazine in a recent article and involves harnessing the energy released from the process of osmosis. All you need for

Renewable energy in Ontario could get a massive financial boost with newly proposed feed-in tariff rates. Though Ontario has had feed-in tariffs for about two years, the project size was capped at 10 MW, under the newly proposed rates that cap is lifted

When it struck, we worried that May's massive Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province could catastrophically imperil nearby dams. Now a growing number of scientists are suggesting that the quake was triggered by the weight of a reservoir created by a